HulloMail a new type of voicemail for Ireland
It’s not too often that I will go straight out nuts for a product but having been using an early version of HulloMail for months now let me tell you, GO GET THIS. If you receive voicemail this will change your life, no more trying to grab a pen, pressing 7 to reply definitely no more garbled messages and best of all, its free, seriously I love this product.
Hullomail comes with apps and support for Blackberry, iPhone and Android with Nokia coming soon, you simply set your voicemail to forward to an Irish number, record your message and you are good to go.
I am using it in iPhone and Android and I genuinely havent had one single issue with this, my missed calls are noted, I am informed if they caller has left a message, if they have I can play the message in the app or its emailed to me to listen to later.
If you get email, get this its that simple.
Hi Pat,
I just signed up for the HulloMail service after reading your post and I completely agree … it’s really fantastic! It has long been a complaint of Irish iPhone users that we don’t get the visual voicemail that most others do. This is a really great antidote!
By the way, the story about the rail ticket is sickening. I use Bus Eireann coaches a lot and come across the same attitude. This kind of behaviour is genuinely shameful.
John.
Twitter: johnmryan
23rd October, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Same here Pat, I did a review of it on my blog. Love it only problem is downloading VM in the small non-data areas in Ireland
Great find Pat,
I hate having to pay 02 for voicemail so this is perfect!
I’m a little curious – this is good.. almost too good.. Where’s the catch!?
Ronan.
Ronan,
When you dialed the DTMF sequence to set up the service (stored as HulloMail Activate in your address book) you set up call forwarding on unavailable towards a 076 number. This is the Irish VoIP range. As such, when you miss a call, you are paying for a forwarded call in order to allow the caller to leave a message. Theoretically then, you are paying for each message (and I guess HulloMail make their money on the terminating revenue) but most people have relatively few minutes per month of messages and it will likely just use up some more of your bundle. The net effect of this is that the service is free to you and your GSM provider has to pay HulloMail a small sum per month for terminating the calls.
John.